Yesterday, Virginia certified the result of its incredibly close Attorney General's race. Very soon, the Commonwealth will likely begin a recount. Here, courtesy of documents produced by the State Board of Elections, is how it will work.

After the canvassing process got high marks in the close Virginia Attorney General race, another similar process at the state level in South Carolina revealed that Richland County - already under fire for problems - had failed to count more than 1,000 ballots.

A new bill just introduced in the U.S. Senate (and likely to be offered as an amendment to the current defense authorization bill) would strengthen federal law with regard to military and overseas voting.

New data from New Mexico shows that voting lines have different effects on voters depending on their perception of the impact of waiting. This subjective component of the "long lines" problem is one the field shouldn't overlook.

In response to recent criticism of the president's election reform commission, Yale law professor and election geek emeritus Heather Gerken says the commission's non political technocratic work might be just the thing the field needs.

Was Texas' new voter ID the reason for low turnout in the recent election? Does it thus represent an effort to restrict turnout? Should the state therefore be subject once again to the Voting Rights Act? The answer is (un)clear: we have no idea.

U.S. Senate Rules Chair Charles Schumer intends to introduce a bill to help states create contingency plans for Election Day disasters. While it, like anything else in the current Congress, is a long shot - at least it's a step in the right direction.

Los Angeles County's Dean Logan recently shared an article about the decline of handwriting instruction in schools. What could that trend mean for election officials used to relying on "wet ink" signatures to identify and authenticate voters?

A razor-thin margin in the Virginia Attorney General's race has brought out the best in the election geek community, as an impressively data-based discussion about the canvassing process has emerged on Twitter.